These are words of wisdom.

Crises need to be carefully managed.

There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise

There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise

and Hamath, also, which borders on it Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

And Hamath also shall border thereby Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.

ELA There are more sobering notes among the n grams.

And to my mind, those are pretty wise words, no matter what your creed. Thank you.

Then a wise woman cried out of the city, Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'

Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

Faith in renewed growth is an ill advised policy strategy.

But the outlook for a new, sensible policy is not promising.

It is more important to have wise leadership and sound policies in place so as to ensure the delivery of results that meet people's aspirations.

With wise policy responses, the impact is likely to be relatively mild and short lived.

Wise policy simultaneously considers short , medium , and long term effects.

Undetected imbalances and systemic risk make fiscal policies seem prudent when they are not.

But the open economy that has bred Russia s economic success requires the maintenance of sensible policies to succeed.

In any case, limiting financial interdependence is the prudent strategy and the likely outcome.

UNICEF will continue to use, in a judicious manner, the services of outside agencies and consultants to fill gaps, carry out temporary assignments and perform specialized tasks.

In the meantime, we are doing our utmost through our good offices to help steer the process towards prudent conflict management.

Malaysia wisely took an alternative course, looking instead to the highly successful countries of East Asia.

China was one of the first countries to sign up to the Basel 3 standards, and further renminbi internationalization will be implemented in a prudent and pragmatic manner.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice s adamant resistance to engage the Syrians is not exactly wise policy.

But, because of political pressure exerted by small, powerful interest groups, windfall profits will inevitably be spent at home in unwise subsidies.

But, with mounting fiscal and financial risks threatening to derail its efforts, policymakers must act quickly to design and implement prudent, forward looking policies.

But unilateralism is not a rational long term and effective policy, for it will not lead to a genuine and lasting peace in the Middle East.

This approach helped the municipal government identify priority families and communities for intervention, as well as rationalize the allocation of its social development funds.

A peaceful resolution of deep rooted problems requires wise political leadership, as well as recognition that past injustices cannot be redressed all at once.

In particular, I would note the establishment of a working group within the ICTY, which has made proposals that, I believe, are rather wise and will help speed up the work in that jurisdiction.

In addition, I have dispatched special envoys to various African States to provide timely and discreet facilitation and to prevent tensions from deteriorating into open conflict.

Given the stakes, continuing to rely on proven approaches, even while trying to promote a world with fewer and safer nuclear weapons, is a judicious strategy.

The challenge for the world now is that China has become politically pluralistic no leader is strong enough to make wise unilateral concessions.

But, with the crisis over, the bypassing continued increasingly by the prime minister alone. Genuinely collective decision making can be a painfully difficult process, but, in government as elsewhere, there is wisdom in crowds.

But it would be unlikely to win such a war, and prudent policy on all sides can make such a war unlikely.

Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead

Impolitic or not, Biden s anxieties seem to have informed several of the administration s early foreign policy decisions.

Whether it was threats to the environment, inequities in the distribution of wealth, lack of a sane policy or a sustainable policy with respect to the continuing uses of energy, we were in desperate straits.

Those leaders strategic decisions over the last few years, if not longer, have been rather consistently poor, or at least imprudent.

To meet the latter objective, they turn to prudently managed countries, placing upward pressure on their currencies, too and, again, beyond what would be warranted by domestic fundamentals.

Now, I had always thought she was completely untouched by all of this, because the grandmother, to me, appeared to be sort of the village wise woman, and the person everybody throughout the day, I noticed people kept coming to visit her grandmother.

It's kind of like the dirty, little secret of poverty, which is that, not only do poor people take in very little income, but also, the income that they take in, they don't spend it very wisely, and unfortunately, most of that spending is done by men.

The alternative tinkering with reform while hoping that time, EU money, and a watchful eye will move the three Bosnian communities toward political harmony is not prudent policy.

The key questions for the world economy today, then, are how significant the growth slowdown will be, and how long it will last. With wise policy responses, the impact is likely to be relatively mild and short lived.

Not all banks voluntarily loaded up on distressed government bonds some were pressured by supervisors, others by governments but many have made unwise bets.